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Jacob Castro
Im a student from Arizon State University who is looking for an oppurtunity as a data science student that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.
I have a huge interest in Sports Analytics.
Education
MS. Program Evaluation and Data Analytics
University of Arizona
Tempe, Arizona
2021 - 2020
- program evaluation and data analytics is a professional degree program that emphasizes skills needed to leverage data to improve organizational performance in the public, nonprofit and private sectors.
B.S., Business Admistration: Concentration In M.I.S and Management
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts
2018 - 2015
- Learned the basics of computers and computer software for programming.
B.S., Undeclared
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
University of Massachusets, Dartmouth
2015 - 2014
- Where I figured out what major I wanted to pursue
Selected Positions
Sports Analyst
New York Knicks
New York, New York
2022
- Work and Learn enough to work for the Knicks front office and make the right decisions to have them becime chapions after decades of drought.
Youtuber
Youtube.com/JayAnalytics
Lawrence, MA
2021
- Develop a channel to help people understand the game within the game. Make content weekly on mostly basketball games.
- This will be in the works starting December.
BestBuy Sales
Appliances
Salem. NH
2020 - 2015
- Sales Associate for Pacific Sales found in Bestbuy
Kmart
Cashier
Tewksburt, MA
2014 - 2013
- Basic Cashier position
Selected Writing
Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2019
- Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
- Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
- Reached top of HackerNews.
The United States of Seasons
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2018
- GIS analysis of weather data to find the most ‘seasonal’ locations in United States
- Used Bayesian regression methods for smoothing sparse geospatial data.
A year as told by fitbit
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Analyzing a full years worth of second-level heart rate data from wearable device.
- Demonstrated visualization-based inference for large data.
MCMC and the case of the spilled seeds
LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com
N/A
2017
- Full Bayesian MCMC sampler running in your browser.
- Coded from scratch in vanilla Javascript.